Due to bad weather, the Road Emergency Response Center starts working around the clock

Due to bad weather, the Road Emergency Response Center starts working around the clock

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The Ukrainian Center for Emergency Response on Highways has launched a 24/7 operation due to the expected heavy snow, ice and wind. An orange weather alert has been issued in many regions. In Odesa, snow and ice have restricted traffic for heavy vehicles and all types of transport on some roads.

In the near future, heavy snowfalls and ice are expected in some areas. snowfalls and ice are expected in some regions, so the Headquarters for the elimination of of emergencies on the roads. This was reported by the State Agency for for the Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine, reports UNN.

Wet snow and rain, snowdrifts on the roads and ice: weather conditions are deteriorating in Ukraine. In order to respond quickly to the situation and prevent problems on the roads, the Headquarters for Emergency Response on National Roads has started working around the clock

, the report says.

Details

Due to the active cyclone in Ukraine, except for the western and eastern regions, severe weather conditions of the second (orange) level of danger are expected today and tomorrow. hazard level.

Thus, in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Odesa regions are expected to experience heavy snowfall. In Sumy, Poltava, Kirovohrad, and Mykolaiv regions, Mykolaiv regions are expected to have heavy sleet and rain. In some places there will be ice. And in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovs'k, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia regions and Crimea there will be significant rains.

In the northern, central, southern regions and Crimea winds will increase to 17-22 m/s, in some places up to 25 m/s, in Odesa and Mykolaiv 25-30 m/s; in the western and eastern regions wind gusts of 15-20 m/s.

As a reminder

In Odesa region, due to snow and ice, today at 8:30 a.m. traffic for heavy vehicles has been temporarily blocked on the following highways public roads of national importance M-15 Odesa-Reni (to Bucharest) and M-28 Odesa - Yuzhne - /M-14/ (bypassing Odesa). 

Subsequently, due to the intensification of bad weather, traffic on the M-15 Odesa-Reni road was restricted for all types of transport.

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